Friday, March 17, 1967

planning and the carrying out and the fulfilling of these commitments to the people of Prince Edward Island.

No, my words are not of severe criticism of the Leader of the Opposition on this day, Mr. Speaker; my words are those of regret. This man has been deceived, this man has been misinformed, this man has been misled by those who are his advisers, and I will begin to unveil the long, sad story of this deception which has been prepetrated against this man over the past seven years. There are many in- stances and I am not sure where to start, Mr. Speaker, perhaps we can start with the “cocktail contracts" signed in the haze of election glory, ribbon cutting cere- monies, visions of grandeur, political prestige, and what have you. The “cocktail contracts" first, for which this province now suffers a hang-over from the seven-year , “tory bender". Mr. Speaker, the list of these contracts is appalling; some are signed ‘ prior to or in the midst of election. I have one here signed on the ninth day of June, 1966, and I believe that places it very shortly before the deferred election date in Souris, when for some reason or other an agrement was drawn up between a person there in the First District of Kings and the Provincial Secretary of the Province of Prince Edward Island to rent accommodations for a motor vehicle office. I have the contract before me, it is dated June 9th, it is retroactive, Mr. Speaker, to the first day of April, which as every member knows is April Fools Day, and why this par- ticular date was chosen I am not certain but this was the time as well that the hon- ourable members opposite were promising things back to April first without reveal- ing the source of the funds to do so. It is an interesting feature of this contract that the building is to be heated and the clause states that the heating is to commence on the first day of September in each and every year, but it doesn‘t say, Mr. Speaker, how long the heating is to continue. This is an incident, Mr. Speaker, in these rushed circumstances signing contracts — but lo and behold did the Provincial Secretary sign it! I looked through the Orders-in-Councils and I find that the Provincial Sec- retary on this date was the honourable member from Second Prince, who described himself to the public in television not too long ago as a “Ulysses", a man that is part of all that he has seen. We know the story of Ulysses, Mr. Speaker.

Walter R. Shaw: Old age is still honourable.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: We remember how for twenty years that man travelled, plundering countries and desecrating things as he went along for twenty years. It’s a good job, Mr. Speaker, that people spoke the way they did on the eleventh day of July. (Laughter). As otherwise, Mr. Speaker, that plundering would continue at the hands of Ulysses and his followers.

Robert E. Campbell: That’s right. (Applause).

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: But what happened? He didn’t sign it! It was signed by W. R. Shaw. He’s the man that couldn’t wait for the Provincial Secretary to drive down from O'Leary; he had to rush right out from Charlottetown and get to the First District of Kings and get this contract signed before election day. And they were in such a rush, Mr. Speaker, that I notice that this lease docu- ment has bene registered in the Supreme Court with the Deputy Prothonotary rather

than with the Registrar of Deeds where it ought to have been registered. Mr. Speaker, that was one. There are others.

There are agreements in this pile of documents about liquor stores and I just want to inform this House how happy I am to be able to report the revision to sanity in the matter of providing at best advantage to the province the new facilities for the retail sale of alcohol in the province. During the last couple of years there were a couple of friends that had to be fixed up, and a liquor store was built in Sher- brooke, which over a twenty-year period is going to cost the taxpayers of this prov- ince$246,000.00. There was one built in Charlottetown here which is going to cost over a twenty-year period $258,000.00, Mr. Speaker, on a rental basis. We have called tenders, Mr. Speaker, for a liquor store in Cardigan of equal size and capacity to these two stores and the cost over twenty years including interest and value of land will not exceed $151,000.00. (Applause) This, Mr. Speaker, is a way in which these deeepters have channelled approximately $100,000 to the advantage of those friends who have benefited in this way. Now what else is here.

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